Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life of Gerald Middleton, a disillusioned historian haunted by a decades-old archaeological fraud that has quietly corrupted both his career and his conscience. Set against the backdrop of 1950s England, Angus Wilson's razor-sharp novel chronicles Gerald's belated reckoning with the lies, compromises, and evasions that have shaped his professional and personal world — from a crumbling marriage to a cast of brilliantly rendered social grotesques. With satirical precision and genuine psychological depth, Wilson dissects the hypocrisies of the English middle class, academia, and the stubborn myths a society constructs about its own past. Drawing clear comparisons to the great Victorian novelists he admired, Wilson presents a panoramic social canvas that is as wickedly comic as it is morally serious, illustrating how the sins of one generation quietly poison the next. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes stands as a landmark of mid-twentieth-century British literature, praised for its Dickensian scope and its unflinching examination of self-deception — leaving the reader to wonder whether Gerald, or any of us, can ever truly make amends for the truths we chose to ignore.
Author: Angus Wilson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life of Gerald Middleton, a disillusioned historian haunted by a decades-old archaeological fraud that has quietly corrupted both his career and his conscience. Set against the backdrop of 1950s England, Angus Wilson's razor-sharp novel chronicles Gerald's belated reckoning with the lies, compromises, and evasions that have shaped his professional and personal world — from a crumbling marriage to a cast of brilliantly rendered social grotesques. With satirical precision and genuine psychological depth, Wilson dissects the hypocrisies of the English middle class, academia, and the stubborn myths a society constructs about its own past. Drawing clear comparisons to the great Victorian novelists he admired, Wilson presents a panoramic social canvas that is as wickedly comic as it is morally serious, illustrating how the sins of one generation quietly poison the next. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes stands as a landmark of mid-twentieth-century British literature, praised for its Dickensian scope and its unflinching examination of self-deception — leaving the reader to wonder whether Gerald, or any of us, can ever truly make amends for the truths we chose to ignore.